"The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge."

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Source : "Homes of the Stars". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 2004.

Paul Goldberger

#Cutting Quotes #People Quotes #Taste Quotes

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
“In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics
“I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.”
“Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.”
“I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.”
“I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.”
“The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.”
“They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.”

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